Date: 26 April 2022, Tuesday
Time: 4:00pm - 5:15pm (Singapore Time / UTC +8)

Presented by SGInnovate, EDB and in partnership with WEF Scale360, the Reverse Pitch event series aims to spotlight market demands for frontier technologies to better inform the startup community to support their go-to-market efforts. At these Reverse Pitch events, corporate leaders will present their problem statements and innovation needs that they are open to working with startups. This session will feature Circular Economy focused problem statements from global corporations such as The Ascott Limited, Buhler Group, CP Foods Thailand, Indorama Ventures and TES.

The Reverse Pitch series is part of SGInnovate and EDB’s Open Innovation partnership, with the aims to connect open innovation leaders in Singapore and the region, promote corporate innovation projects and adoption, and catalyse corporate-startup collaborations.

Programme: 
4:00pm - 4:05pm: Opening Remarks from SGInnovate
4:05pm - 4:10pm: Introduction and Opening Remarks from WEF Scale360

• Helen Burdett, Head - Circular Economy, WEF

4:10pm - 5:15pm: Presentations and Q&A with

• The Ascott Limited

• Bühler Group

• CPF Thailand

• Indorama Ventures

• TES

About the Corporates:
The Ascott Limited
The Ascott Limited (Ascott) is a Singapore company that has grown to be one of the leading international lodging owner-operators. Ascott's portfolio spans more than 200 cities across over 30 countries in the Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the USA. Ascott has more than 76,000 operating units and over 57,000 units under development, making a total of more than 133,000 units in over 800 properties. The company’s serviced apartment, coliving and hotel brands include Ascott The Residence, The Crest Collection, Somerset, Quest, Citadines, lyf, Préférence, Vertu, Harris, Citadines Connect, Fox, Yello, Fox Lite and POP!. Ascott’s loyalty programme, Ascott Star Rewards, offers exclusive benefits to its members when they book directly with Ascott for their stays at its participating properties. Ascott, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CapitaLand Investment, pioneered Asia Pacific’s first international-class serviced apartment with the opening of The Ascott Singapore in 1984. Today, the company boasts over 30 years of industry track record and award-winning brands that enjoy recognition worldwide.

Bühler Group
Billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies to cover their basic needs for food and mobility every day. For this, we develop the best process solutions along complete value chains. Two billion people each day enjoy foods produced on Bühler equipment, and one billion people travel in vehicles manufactured with parts produced with our machinery. Having this global relevance, we are in a unique position to turn today’s global challenges into sustainable and good business. Bühler has three business pillars: Grains & Food solutions to ensure safe and healthy food and feed. Consumer Foods solutions create culinary delights. Advanced Materials contribute to the production of energy-efficient vehicles and buildings.

The challenges we face today on the global market and in the environment are too vast to solve alone. The solutions we need demand collaborative ecosystems where groups from science to industry to startups work together. Bühler has followed a collaborative innovation approach for a decade and partnerships will help us reach new levels.

CPF (Thailand)
Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited or "CPF" is a leading Thai Multi-National Company in agro-industrial business with fully integrated operations throughout the supply chain from feed business as well as the farm business to food business in both livestock and aquaculture. With over 40 years of excellence, coupled with a strong global network spanning 17 countries and exports to over 40 countries, we have catered to more than 4 billion people across 5 continents. Our main vision is to be the "Kitchen of the World". We put our heart into food and everything we do in order to deliver top quality products and services while firmly supporting 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) through the Sustainability Strategy “Sustainability in Action” comprising three pillars: food security, self-sufficient society and balance of nature.

Indorama Ventures
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, listed in Thailand (Bloomberg ticker IVL.TB), is one of the world’s leading producers of fully recyclable PET, with a global manufacturing footprint across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific. IVL is firmly committed to developing technologies and processes that use post-consumer PET and polyester waste materials as feedstock for the future.  The company’s portfolio comprises Combined PET, Integrated Oxides and Derivatives, and Fibers. Indorama Ventures products serve major FMCG and automotive sectors, i.e. beverages, hygiene, personal care, tire and safety segments. Indorama Ventures has approx. 24,000 employees worldwide and consolidated revenue of US$10.6 billion in 2020. The Company is listed in the Dow Jones Emerging Markets and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

Indorama Ventures is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand with global operating sites in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific.

TES
Since its formation in 2005, TES has grown to become a global leader in sustainable technology services and bespoke solutions that help clients manage the commissioning, deployment, and retirement of technology devices and components.  

TES is sustaining tomorrow by providing comprehensive services for technology devices throughout their lifecycle — from deployment to decommissioning to disposition — all the way through to recycling and end-of-life repurposing. This includes innovating new processes to leverage the value locked in assets if they are to be recycled, such as our proprietary lithium battery recycling process, which extracts scarce materials from used batteries at purity rates high enough that they can be reused in the manufacturing supply chain. 

TES is on a mission to make a decade of difference by securely, safely, and sustainably transforming and repurposing one billion kgs of assets by 2030. Our 43 owned facilities across 21 countries offer unmatched service-level consistency, consistent commercials, lower logistics costs, local compliance experts in-region, support in local time zones and languages, and a deep understanding of transboundary material movement globally.  For more information, visit www.tes-amm.com.